Where Did the Money Flow?
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Assessing/Advising New Seed Network (639)
Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela / $709
Year Funded: 2004
One of the Seed Saver interns, Saviana Parodi, a heritage fruit farmer with a PhD in Molecular Biology, traveled to Bolivia, Venezuela and Peru to meet with groups working on agriculture, food and seed issues. Saviana is also the person who encouraged some Ecuadorians to start their Red de Guardianes de Semillas. We also helped agricultural engineer, Pablo Ermini to adapt the Cuban translation of our "Seed Savers' Handbook" for Argentinian home garden conditions and food culture. This will help their group to find local varieties by researching and recording them and acknowledging local people saving their food plant seeds.
Casa Faria (637)
Brazil / $6,033
Flow Funder: Guilhereme Figueiredo Nascimento
Year Funded: 2010
Casa Faria has been feeding the homeless of Sao Paulo, Brazil for over 50 years. A Flow Fund Gift was shared to make this meeting place a little more clean and friendly, including installing a new floor, two new bathrooms and a new ceiling.
Homeless Garden Project (634)
http://www.homelessgardenproject.org
United States - California / $300
Flow Funder: Malaika Bishop
Year Funded: 2010
The Homeless Garden Project provides job training and transitional employment to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The programs offer trainees an opportunity to rebuild and develop basic life skills and a sense of worth as human beings. Their work brings together people from throughout the community in the beauty and security of a certified organic garden. They also teach principles of economic and ecological sustainability through classes and hands-on experience and provide homeless men and women job training and transitional employment.
Farm Fresh Choice (632)
http://www.ecologycenter.org/ffc/
United States - California / $400
Flow Funder: Malaika Bishop
Year Funded: 2010
Farm Fresh Choice is the Ecology Center's Food Justice Program that engages low-income residents of Berkeley, California USA in reclaiming their optimal health through youth empowerment, nutrition education and community outreach that reaffirms collective ancestral wisdom and the relationship to nourishing foods. The program makes fresh, organic, regionally grown, and culturally appropriate foods convenient for purchase at after school programs through partnerships with local farmers that reflect our communities of color. Adult mentors and teen leaders facilitate peer-education workshops that raise critical health awareness and teach holistic wellness that builds off of our sacred food cultures.
Teen Pregnancy Awareness & Education (619)
Brazil / $3,190
Flow Funder: Maria Amalia Souza
Year Funded: 2010
A gift was shared to create a program to work with teenagers be more aware about the risk of pregnancy in Jaguare, a poor area in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Group and individual counseling is provided, as well as, engaging the full community on activities such as a garden, an internet center, art making and more.
Associacao Bem- Estar Animal Amigos da Celia (616)
Brazil / $2,836
Flow Funder: Charlie Barnett
Year Funded: 2010
The Associacao Bem-Estar Animal Amigos da Celia (Celia Animal Welfare Association or ABEAC Animal Shelter) provides food, shelter and medical care for more than 200 dogs. We shared a gift to help raise funds to buy dog food and cover other expenses of the shelter. Another gift was shared to build a septic system for the kennel to meet government code standards.
Aprendo Contigo (615)
http://www.aprendocontigo.com/
Peru / $1,209
Flow Funder: Charlie Barnett
Year Funded: 2010
Aprendo Contigo sends volunteers to teach underprivileged kids in various hospitals throughout the city. Over 200 volunteers teach reading, writing, arithmetic and other basic subjects to children who are undergoing long term treatment and are therefore unable to attend regular school. The kids come from all over Peru since these hospitals are the only places in the country where they can get effective treatment for free. A gift was shared to cover 3 months salary for Marta Chaves, the Coordinator for Teaching Volunteers.
Bumi Sehat Clinic (602)
Indonesia / $4,000
Flow Funder: Chimene Hickey
Year Funded: 2008
A gift was shared to support this natural birthing/health care clinic located near Meulaboh, Indonesia the epicenter of a large tsunami, for general operating expenses and medicine ($1,065). The clinic provides free medical treatment to survivors of the tsunami. A gift was shared with Mimi Riswantu, a Sumatran translator at the clinic, who has also begun teaching English classes to the local village children ($1,870). A gift was shared to plant a medicinal herb garden on the clinic's property to incorporate more of the traditional, natural healing models into the clinic's skill-set ($401). Once the plants are established, cuttings will be available to villagers to incorporate into their own gardens. 28 fruit trees were also planted around the clinic. The food they produce will be shared amongst the community. A number of flowering plants were also planted to beautify the property, attracting beneficial insects, butterflies and hummingbirds. Scholarships for 2 clinic staff members was also provided so they may attend permaculture trainings ($420). Their knowledge will increase organic food production at the clinic, ensuring healthy, nutritious food security for the clinic. Sarongs were also purchased ($244) as part of a New Mother Care Package.
Youth Gig Rowing Program (592)
http://www.gloucestergigrowers.com
United States - Massachusetts / $300
Year Funded: 2010
Five low-income youth were sponsored by a Flow Fund gift to learn how to row on the Gloucester harbor in Massachusetts USA. The Gloucester Gig Rowers program teaches leadership, encourages exercise and gets participants excited about the history of the Gloucester harbor. Their community is about enthusiasm as well as skill, determination as much as strength, and team pursuit rather than individual.
Sheridan Gates (591)
http://www.purposeatwork.com/aboutus.html
United States - Virginia / $400
Year Funded: 2010
A gift was shared with Sheridan Gates to help support her in her work as a Core Individuation Energy Healing Practitioner. She has served as a coach and consultant in organizational, learning, and change management, and her coaching experience includes career management/renewal, leadership development, and personal growth.
Desda Zuckerman & The Spirit Way Healing Center (586)
United States - Massachusetts / $300
Year Funded: 2010
Core Individuation is a healing modality based on a comprehensive One Body approach to achieving wholeness and well-being. At its heart, Core Individuation is a new paradigm for how to view individual human potential and how to own personal transformation. A gift was shared to help secure a location for Desda to share an afternoon Core Individuation healing workshop on Cape Ann, Massachusetts USA.
Land for Growing Food (574)
Myanmar / $0
Flow Funder: D.J.
While I was living at and funding projects to help a monastery, I noticed that many of the children who lived there were undernourished. Many of these children were small for their age and it was obvious that this monastery needed help feeding their children. The next year, I returned with money donated by private individuals to buy five acres of land for this monastery to grow food on, and the following year I brought more private money to buy over one hundred fruit trees and to put in an irrigation system. This land continues to be a rich source of healthy vegetables and fruits for this monastery and the children who live there. Looking back, this was one of the most successful projects that I was involved in during the six years that I was a Flow Fund Circle member. Even though the money that bought this land and the fruit trees came from private individuals, purchasing this land would not have happened if I had not been in Myanmar as a Flow Fund Circle member.
Nomad Foundation (572)
http://www.nomadfoundation.org/
United States - California, Niger / $1,000
Flow Funder: Larry Yee
Year Funded: 2010
Founded by artist and humanitarian, Leslie Clark, the Nomad Foundation is dedicated to helping the nomads of the Tuareg and Wodaabe tribes of Niger to support them using expertise that has sustained them for centuries. Balancing cultural traditions with economic development the Nomad Foundation focuses on five essential areas: water, food, education, health, and work. They also engage in famine relief and are helping with the building of the Tamesna Center for Nomadic Life and the Tamesna Medical Clinic. Many of these people have never ever seen a doctor.
BusinessKind (571)
http://www.businesskind.org/AboutUs.html
United States - California, Myanmar / $4,000
Flow Funder: Larry Yee
Year Funded: 2010
I was struck by the work that fellow Flow Funder, Helen Gunthrope is doing in Myanmar helping the people to restore the countryside, following the wake of devastation left by Cyclone Nargis. Very simple technologies and solutions to common and often overwhelming problems are being developed and implemented. I really liked what BusinessKind is doing to create jobs and enhance the local economies.
Project Understanding: The Serra Center (567)
http://www.projectunderstanding.org/
United States - California / $1,500
Flow Funder: Larry Yee
Year Funded: 2010
Project Understanding is a day shelter center for the homeless of Ventura, California. 50 to 100 homeless come there daily for a hot shower, facilities to wash their clothes, food to eat, and a place to access services. My wife and I have been cooking soup for them every Tuesday. The center needed money to spruce up the facility and give it a face-lift. My flow fund gift went to improve the front reception area and for a new entrance door.
Clothing Donations to Children (565)
Myanmar / $1,200
Flow Funder: D.J.
Year Funded: 2003
Myanmar monasteries and nunneries are dependent on the local community for support. Children novice monks and nuns who live in monasteries and nunneries go out into the community every morning barefoot, with alms bowls in their hands to collect the food that is shared with everyone who lives at their monastery or nunnery. Myanmar communities are often very poor and are not able to give much more than food, but sometimes there are wealthier members of the community or local businesses that make larger donations to help buy food, build a building or dig a well. The costs involved in supporting a hundred or more children can be expensive, and so additional donations that help the children are always appreciated and important. Each year during the six years that I was a Flow Fund Circle member, clothing donation ceremonies took place in a Myanmar monastery or nunnery where clothing, blankets, towels, sleeping mats, pillows, pillow cases, and mosquito nets were given directly to the children to use and to keep. Over 1,000 children received clothing and other donations during the six years that I was a Flow Fund Circle member.
Scabies & Ringworm Program (564)
Myanmar / $800
Flow Funder: D.J.
Year Funded: 2004
In nearly ever Myanmar monastery and nunnery, where large numbers of children live, scabies and scalp ringworm can be found. The scabies mite burrows under the skin and lays eggs that hatch six days later and creates an ongoing cycle of discomfort, loss of sleep, and possible secondary infections and weakened immune systems. Scalp ringworm is also contagious but is usually spread when children novice monks and nuns share razor blades, pillows and hats. I made my first effort to help educate and treat Myanmar children for scabies and ringworm in 2001, and continued to fund scabies and ringworm programs for the next three years. Since leaving the Flow Fund Circle in 2007 I have continued to fund annual scabies and ringworm programs in Myanmar.
Providing Toilet Facilities (563)
Myanmar / $1,200
Flow Funder: D.J.
Year Funded: 2004
Myanmar is 80% Buddhist so there are a vast number of Buddhist monasteries and nunneries. Most of them are established to teach Buddhist moral lessons and the monks and nuns act as the clergy for the local community. But there are special monasteries and nunneries in Myanmar that are committed and devoted to helping poor, displaced and orphaned children. These monasteries and nunneries feed, clothe and educate the children they care for. During the six years that I was a member of the Flow Fund Circle, I dedicated myself to helping these special monasteries and nunneries that help Myanmar children. Health issues were always a primary concern of mine and so when I saw a dilapidated dirty outhouse being used by the children, I knew that I could fund the building of a new, clean toilet facility. Approximately 65 individual toilet stalls were built in these special monasteries and nunneries during the time that I was Flow Fund Circle member.
Regenerative Design & Nature Awareness (RDNA) (544)
http://www.regenerativedesign.org/
United States - California / $1,450
Year Funded: 2010
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This 9-month program offers a unique, diverse, and complimentary set of skills to students of all ages who are connected to the world of nature, through observation, community building, regenerative design and personal-inquiry. The journey of awareness and connection to the planet are fundamental skills in Permaculture, as are bio-regional living, peace-making, natural history, and cultural mentoring. The program encompasses personal, communal, and global perspectives and stands alone in the kind of holistic training it offers. The gift shared with this program was enough to initiate the establishment of the RDNA Scholarship Fund.
Kisha Montgomery (542)
http://www.kishamontgomery.com/
United States - California / $500
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
A gift was shared with Kisha Montgomery, to support her leadership development. Kisha is a truth-telling poet, activist, and healer working for love and justice, based in Oakland, CA.
NeEddra James, Principal at Semaphore Creative (539)
http://www.plantingjustice.org/board/needdra-james
United States - California / $500
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
This award was shared with NeEddra James, a Bay Area, California USA Social Justice Activist and Principal at Semaphore Creative, as well as Board Member for Planting Justice, and The Common Fire Foundation. This award helped her get a new laptop computer which will enable her to make use of her considerable creative talents in greater service to the causes she holds dear.
Oakland Food Connection (536)
http://www.foodcommunityculture.org/
United States - California / $1,000
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
A gift was shared with Jason Harvey, Founder & Director of Oakland Food Connection. After attending university, Jason returned to his roots in East Oakland USA to work for food security, health and social justice. East Oakland has high rates of disease and violence, and Jason helps community members grow healthy food to maintain healthy lifestyles and strong community ties.
Judith Morgan, Shamanic Healer (535)
United States - California / $1,500
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
A leadership award was shared to support the work of Judith Morgan, a Shamanic Healer and Community Wellness Facilitator in Santa Cruz, California USA. Judith's work helps facilitate healing with many activists and changemakers in the community.
Kimmie Weeks (534)
http://www.kimmieweeks.com/index.php
Liberia, Sierra Leone, United States / $975
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
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This leadership award was shared to support the life and work of Kimmie Weeks. At age nine, Kimmie nearly died of hunger during Liberia's brutal civil war. At age twelve, he negotiated with rebel leaders and precipitated the release of 20,000 child soldiers who had been forced into the fighting, helping to bring about an end to the war. At age 17 he broke the story of then-president Charles Taylor's arming and training children to be used as soldiers in nearby Sierra Leone's civil war to the world press, and fled the country for his life, settling in the US for university. Today, Kimmie has returned to west Africa, where he works to rehabilitate child soldiers, and end of the use of children in war throughout Africa and the world.
Activists at The Farm Midwifery Center (527)
http://www.thefarmmidwives.org/
United States - Tennessee, United States / $3,000
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
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A gift was shared to underwrite natural, midwife-assisted, home-style births, for two young activists, giving birth at The Farm Midwifery Center. Birth is a profound moment for every family, and too often insurance considerations are forcing activists, many of whom have given up financial opportunities to give their lives to the betterment of their communities, to have their babies in hospital settings where Cesarean rates now exceed 33%. These two young women are: Malika Sanders, African-American community-organizer and founder of Grassroots Democracy Coalition and president of 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement in Selma, Alabama USA; and Coumba Toure, West African director of Ashoka and a leader in the Institute for Popular Education in Bamako, Mali. Malika’s father is an Alabama State Senator who is now lobbying for legalization of home birth in the state. Coumba is working to bring midwives over from Mali to be trained in midwifery and bring that knowledge back with them.
Art for Health Facilities (520)
United States - Arizona, Canada, United States - Illinois / $10,100
Gifts were shared with 13 artists to create art to donate to hospitals and health centers, including the Hospice of the Valley Children's Wing at the Phoenix Memorial Hospital, the Scottsdale Health Care Children's Facility, both in Arizona USA, and the Chicago, Illinois USA Yoga Studio for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and the Vancouver Eye Clinic.
Art for New Planned Parenthood Clinic (519)
United States / $6,000
The Flow Funder and five artists met with architects, designers and management to discuss the use of art throughout a new women’s health facility which serves women from all socio-economic backgrounds, providing high-quality, fine art which creates a soothing and healing atmosphere. A gift was shared with the five artists involved, who then created and donated the art.
Documentation of Herbal Medicine (517)
Myanmar / $1,000
Flow Funder: Anonymous
A Gift was given to an activist who has been involved in promoting and preserving traditional culture and literature of the Shan people in Burma. He is a teacher and a Buddhist lay priest, quite well known and respected in many parts of the Shan State of Burma. His long term dream is to establish a farm and ashram where people can come and learn about various aspects of Shan traditional wisdoms, Buddhism, and the interconnectedness between people and the environment/ecology. This project promotes and preserves Shan traditional wisdoms by creating a book containing photos of different herbal medicine plants and descriptions of their usefulness in medical and health purposes.
Healing Arts for Children Project (516)
Thailand / $250
In response to the need for care for children affected by HIV/AIDS in Chiengrai, the Wiangchai Hospital has developed a healing program for small children whose parent(s) died of AIDS, and/or have emotional challenges and needs. 30 children are enrolled in the project, ranging from 4- to 12-years-old. The arts therapy sessions are organized once a month and conducted by local art practitioners with good results. This project is locally-innovative, as most children affected by HIV/AIDS are helped only materially without adequate psychological or emotional support. It is possible that this can be a model from which other social workers and hospital staff in other areas can learn and create their own program.
Women's Clinic (507)
Nicaragua / $350
Flow Funder: Fran Peavey
A gift was shared with this women's clinic that teaches economic skills.
Traditional knowledge in Central America (506)
/ $500
The Flow Fund gift was to a woman working with women’s healing using traditional herbs and medicines.
Center for Protection of Women and Children (504)
Serbia and Montenegro / $2,000
Center for Protection of Women and Children Kosovo
Stinson/Bolinas Community Fund (498)
United States - California / $60,000
Year Funded: 1997
$20,000 seed money was shared to start a new community fund for the towns of Stinson Beach and Bolinas, California USA with the hope of leveraging additional donations so the fund can be self-sustaining. An initial group of seven donors agreed on the philosophical underpinnings of this new fund and The Marin Community Foundation became the fiscal sponsor, creating grant guidelines, as well as an application form. Since then, the fund has made many grants for improving community and cultural life, and enhancing the well-being of local residents.
Healing Adolescent Girls in Darfur (496)
Sudan / $2,000
Almost 2 million people in the three states of Darfur are refugees or internally-displaced, due to the violent conflict that began in March 2003. More than 60% of them are children under 18 years of age. In South Darfur alone, hundreds of thousands of people are seeking refuge in camps, which lack basic services and security. In order to provide the local children and adolescent girls with structure and a sense of normality, the Sudanese Popular Committee for Relief (SPCR) established nine Children Centers in three locations in South Darfur, where internally-displaced people live. 40 people were trained to organize daily, social and recreational activities for the almost 10,000 children served. Many of the children are survivors of sexual abuse, and some of them are dealing with unwanted pregnancies. Several services help these young girls heal from their experiences. At present more than 500 girls meet and encourage each other to cope and accept their often unwanted baby. We shared a Flow Fund Gift to support these activities.
Tibetan Children's Villages (490)
India / $20,000
A gift was shared to support the housing, health and education needs of 5 Tibetan refugee children for 10 years.
Transportation for Members of the Japaling Home (488)
India / $10,000
Dharamsala India is home to 156 elderly, destitute Tibetan refugees who have been in exile for over 45 years and have no family to care for them. A gift was shared to purchase a vehicle to be used for emergency and general transport of these people.
Lu Hong Yen & Environmental Education Programs (476)
China / $6,000
Flow Funder: Betsy Damon
Sichuan University is the 4th largest University in China and has mandatory Environmental Education for all its undergraduates. Lu Hong Yen is a passionate and devoted environmental educator and activist, and this program links with the Keepers of the Waters organization, as well as other projects throughout China.
Mollomarka Project (471)
Peru / $1,000
Flow Funder: Angeles Arrien
Year Funded: 1995
A Flow Fund Gift was shared to provide medical supplies for the village of Mollomarka, in the Andes mountains of Peru (a 6-hour drive northeast of Cusco, Peru).
Eric Vormanns, African Healer (462)
Ghana / $3,000
Flow Funder: Angeles Arrien
A gift was shared to support the work of this African healer and Founder of the World Federation for Spiritual Healing. He has developed a model of health that incorporates ancient, modem and "etheric" methods of healing called "Vormanns Method."
International Network for Attitudinal Healing (460)
United States - Texas / $300
This network supports peace and the extension of unconditional positive regard in Austin, Texas.
Scotland Ecosystem Rejuvenation Project (455)
United States, United Kingdom / $4,000
This project focuses on the restoration of Scotland's watersheds - in particular the Tweed River ecosystems. A gift was shared to continue their work to create greater harmony and balance through ancient and new physics.
Yoga Program for Those with Life Threatening Illnesses (452)
United States - California / $5,000
This gift enabled the formation of a Yoga program designed especially for people with life threatening illness. No public program of this nature exists in Marin or San Francisco Counties, California USA.
S.A.N.D (Support After Neonatal Death) (451)
United States - California / $4,000
S.A.N.D. is a bi-monthly support group for parents who have lost an infant through miscarriage, genetic abortion, stillbirth or death during or shortly after birth. The purpose of this unique bereavement group is to enable parents to grieve, preserve their marriages, and to continue to confidently parent their existing children (if any). This is the only group of its kind in San Francisco, California USA.
"Still Lives": Art Exhibit for The Zen Center AIDS Hospice (450)
United States - California / $500
Year Funded: 1992
This gift supported the "Still Lives" art exhibit at the Zen Center AIDS Hospice in California USA. This show raised a significant amount of money for the Hospice and its work.
Anti-Nuclear Asia Coordinator (436)
Thailand / $1,000
A Flow Fund Gift was shared to hire a Thai Anti-Nuclear Asia Coordinator.
Gifts of Delight (434)
United States - Arizona / $1,000
A gift was shared with a Catholic health care volunteer who works with Hispanic elderly and sick women in the Tucson, Arizona USA region. While she herself does great hands-on healing and is a nurse, her desire is to use this gift to bring "gifts of delight," such as food and flowers, to the people she works with.
Brother Pasqual (433)
http://www.deserthouseofprayer.org/
United States - Arizona / $1,000
This gift was shared with a Catholic priest, Brother Pasqual, who has dedicated his life to running the Desert House of Prayer, a small retreat center outside of Tuscon, Arizona USA, which offers rest and revitalization for burned-out or ill Catholics, activists, priests and nuns. He also does extensive work with Hispanic youth in the Tuscon area, and we shared a $1,000 gift with him for that work. When he heard the philosophy behind the Flow Fund gift-giving, he would only accept the gift if he could follow the same rule we follow and give it away. He ended up sharing the money with people "in their time of need," which included a young woman dying of AIDS.
AIDS Companion Project at the Village Zen Center (418)
United States - New York / $800
We met with the remarkable female Zen teacher, Sensei Enkyo O'Hara, founder of the Village Zen Center in Greenwich Village, New York. Enkyo told us about several of the projects emerging from the Center, including the newly-established "AIDS Companion Project" which inspired us to share this gift with her and the Zen Center. The AIDS Companion Project networks and provides companions for people with AIDS, who are often lonely and depressed. Services include providing assistance in running errands, cooking meals, or being medical/social service advocates.
Northern California Stop Cassini Coalition (399)
http://homepage.mac.com/deyestone/cassini.html
United States - California / $500
Year Funded: 1997
This emergency coalition was formed to stop the Cassini Launch, a space research probe carrying 72 pounds of plutonium in October 1997.
Safe Energy Handbook Translated into Chinese (387)
China / $900
Flow Funder: Mayumi Oda
The Safe Energy Handbook was translated into Chinese with the help of Anni Chung.
Gabriel Tetiarahi & Hiti Tau (386)
French Polynesia / $1,550
Flow Funder: Mayumi Oda
Year Funded: 1997
Gabriel Tetiarahi is the founder of the non-governmental network Hiti Tau in Tahiti, which hosted the International Conference of Abolition in January 1997. A gift was shared with Hiti Tau to publish and distribute a Health Study of Nuclear Workers in French Polynesia in October 1997.
Phil Harrison & Compensation of Navajo Uranium Miners (382)
http://www.wise-uranium.org/ureca.html
United States / $4,500
Phil Harrison has been working to get appropriate compensation for former uranium workers and their families from the U.S. government. A gift was shared to help him in his work. Phil Harrison produced a booklet called, "Memories Come to Us in the Rain and the Wind," which is a collection of oral histories and photographs of Navajo uranium miners and their families.
Lokenath Divine Life Mission (378)
India / $500
Lokenath Divine Life Mission Mission projects include the establishment of women's empowerment groups, women's healthcare, child education, creative development, adult education, eye surgery & care, homeopathy, farmers clubs/conservation awareness. The Mission is committed to raising the socio-economic level of the impoverished people of the slums and villages in and around Calcutta, and addresses fundamental problems at the grass root level. They conduct school classes "on the streets" and health care in a medical mobile where care is needed most.
Looking Grand, Feeling Great (366)
http://www.darcaleenicholson.com
United States - California / $2,500
A gift was shared with Darca Lee Nicholson, a healer and bodywork practitioner, to complete her natural health book, "Looking Grand, Feeling Great: Simple Practices for Beauty and Health."
Clean and Healthy Food Production Project (354)
Russian Federation / $500
Dana -a Nikolaev women's organization Unlimited Possibilities Award to Natasha Pokrass a 'Can-Do' lady. When we did a check-in at the women's circle to see what the life focus was for each participant. Most said "family" but not Natasha. Although she has a family, her goal was to help make positive changes in the health of her community.. "She's not happy unless she's too busy" said a friend at the circle. She has already found a donation of bread baking machines and is sponsoring a seminar to encourage and support others to produce healthy clean (as opposed to irradiated) food.
Socio-Ecological Union - Sosnovy Bor, (352)
Russian Federation / $700
This is a small nuclear city outside of St. Petersburg). Oleg Bodrov lives in a closed nuclear city. He is a whistle blower who used to work in a secret nuclear R&D center He educates the public on the nuclear threat and also volunteers leading ecological expeditions for children identifying pollution sources and cleaning their local river. Through the work of the Center for Citizen Initiative's Nuclear Watchdog Project, he became interested in alternative energy and energy conservation and started the first non profit energy center in St. Petersburg in May 1996. He organized an ecological seminar for environmental activists and teachers for which I provided $100. My grant enabled the seminar to take place after another organization co-opted his funds and he had given up He was invited to attend the Deep Ecology summer training in Seattle but he didn't have the airfare. I provided $600 and showed him how he could use $500 from another grant. I sought to increase his US contacts and to enable him to learn the latest ecological thinking. I know that he will make good use of the training because his courage, motivation and spirit are so strong.
Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Health, Nuclear
Baltic Sea Information Center, Sosnovybourg, St.Petersburg (349)
Russian Federation / $850
This closed area where the government is continuing to build nuclear power plants is supported by other Baltic Sea neighbors like Finland that buy their power from this plant. Oleg Bodrov, whose life has been threatened for his dedicated work continues to publish articles in a monthly bulletin to educate the Baltic Sea activists. He needed a duplicating machine since he can no longer gain access to the machine at the plant.
Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Media, Nuclear, Water
Living with Radiation In the Ukraine (344)
Ukraine / $2,000
There is still a figurative cloud of radiation hanging over their cities. Families don't know what genetic damage has been done and whether their children will still develop thyroid cancer. There is a fifteen year peak so the cancer rate is steadily increasing. It has been ten years since Chernobyl. Families are still living in areas with above normal radiation. A group called Salvation has developed radiation testing centers operated by children in the most heavily contaminated areas. I have funded the publication of one pamphlet, perhaps more based on the first production, about living with radiation. They will research foods which help to clean out body toxins, how to grow clean food and how to deal with the psychological effects of living with radiation and will publish and distribute their findings.
Development of water filter to protect against infection (341)
Russian Federation / $500
Development of water filter to protect against infection Potable water is well known to be a problem in St. Petersburg. One promising solution is home water filters. I funded the testing and certification of a filter to protect people against microbe infection, bacteria viruses including Hepatitis A. Yuri, a thirty five year old scientist is diligently trying to perfect the filter seal. As you know scientists are having an extremely difficult time due to the economic situation. I may also have found a contact for his filter production.
Krasnoyarsk Ecological Movement (340)
Russian Federation / $2,000
Krasnoyarsk Ecological Movement Conference in the spring 1996 on threats posed by RT-2, a nuclear fuel reprocessing site under construction. If completed it would be the largest in the world. The operation would pose an enormous threat to the city of Krasnoyarsk(population one million) and to the environment. Start-up funds to enable Victor Mikheev, a hard hitting journalist who devotes time and energy to public dangers posed by RT-2, to organize this conference for next Spring.
Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Media, Nuclear, Water
Ecological Initiative Tomsk, Russia (336)
Russian Federation / $150
Ecological Initiative Tomsk, Russia Tomsk in Siberia is the area of the former gulags. It is also the area of a secret nuclear weapons manufacturing city. Independent scientists have found radioactive pollution in the river, Chernoble syndrome in the children who live across the river from the nuclear plant, and discovered lies on the part of the government concerning dangers of explosions from the plant and leakage from the storage of plutonium. (last May there was an explosion releasing radioactive material into the atmosphere) I have funded a professional dictaphone for a Tomsk journalist who has a weekly radio show on the environment. I got a matching grant from Sacred Earth Network. Tomsk Ecological Initiative wanted informational materials produced from the point of view of activists concerning nuclear waste, versus the government viewpoint.
Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Media, Nuclear, Water
Beijing Conference fees (335)
Russian Federation, Uzbekistan / $600
Beijing Conference fees I am trying to raise the money for both of the women heading two projects, to represent areas of extreme ecological devastation at the Beijing Women's Conference in September. One participant has already raised her own airfare.
Perzent Karalkalpakistan, Uzbekistan (334)
Uzbekistan / $2,500
Many large international agencies have done research in the Aral Sea area, but few actually have operational programs. Mothers' breast milk is toxic, the drinking water is polluted, and there is the highest rate of infant mortality in the FSU. I first funded a pamphlet written in the Karalkalpak language for teenagers who marry and have children at 16-19 years of age, concerning sanitation, drinking water, and health. After consulting with Oral Atanyazova in Nukus, I've decided to additionally fund a monthly women's bulletin based loosely on the book "Our Bodies, Ourselves" Oral is an independent woman Gynecologist and now Ph.d, of Karalkalpak origin, who is deeply committed to the health of her people and is bursting with good ideas. She is a real hope for change and I am working to get UNICEF involved with her visionary future for the women of her region.
Advocacy, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Nuclear, Water, Women
Movement for Nuclear Safety-Chelyabinsk (Urals) (333)
Russian Federation / $2,000
A grass roots environmental organization attempting to address the ecological disaster of government dumping radioactive waste into their river in the 50's One river town is so dangerous that standing on the banks produces lethal doses of radiation in just one hour. Further down river, cows graze and children play. MNS is concerned about ecological problems resulting from the nuclear weapons industry. They are afraid that polluted waters from lakes outside of town will eventually contaminate the city's drinking water and do not trust the government studies. I gave them money to use the already collected data to find out which direction the contamination was moving and whether it was moving toward the city's drinking water The second phase of the project is to produce maps and a publication to publicize the potential disaster. Only by providing written scientific data will the government and policy making community believe their findings. Note of explanation! The Soviets are a very literate population and rely heavily on written data. As a general rule their educated population is willing to absorb dense scientific treatises, which Americans would shun as too detailed. This is an example of funding a project through the eyes of a Russian. The MNS staff has completed the research and are in the process of compiling the maps. These will be used as proof of the seriousness of the potential pollution of the drinking water of Chelyabinsk, a city of 300,000 population, and the opportunity for the government to prevent this disaster. My contact, Natalia, is a dynamic outspoken former city councilwoman who started the nuclear watchdog operation and has a million ideas for important projects. Her organization is respected both by government and by the local populace.
Ballet of the Banshees: Resurrection (328)
United States / $1,000
Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton
A gift was shared to take this performance and healing circle on the road, to share with cancer and AIDS patients.
Center For Handicapped Children The Institute of Child Health Trust (323)
India / $2,000
This will be the first center of its kind in India that is within the precinct of a fully-fledged children's hospital thereby having advantage of treatment facility in all branches of pediatric medicine
Blue Spruce Standing Deer (Pba-Quen-Nee-e) (315)
United States - Utah, United States - New Mexico / $450
Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton
Blue Spruce Standing Deer (Pba-Quen-Nee-e) is a Tiwa Indian artist and musician born and raised at the Taos Pueblo in Northern New Mexico. A gift was shared so he could share two workshops at the Earth Mandala Center in Castle Valley, Utah.
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (314)
United States - New York / $100
Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors series is a unique work of contemporary sacred art created by artist Alex Grey. This installation of 21 framed images, consisting of 19 paintings and two etched mirrors, examines the anatomy of body, mind and spirit in rich detail. Each painting presents a life-sized figure facing viewers and inviting them to mirror the images, creating a sense of seeing into oneself.
Whistle Home & Oasis Project (294)
Thailand / $2,500
Chansuda Suwanchandee was a single mother of three young children and she had HIV. She founded and ran the Oasis Project. It was her dream to provide shelter, food, and health care for homeless people with HIV in Bangkok, Thailand. The Whistle Hom provides child care for mothers with HIV. Children receive food, diapers, and nourishment. Since mothers with HIV cannot breast feed their children, the home also provides instant milk powder for free. Some children live permanently at Whistle Home because their mothers have passed away.
Karen Refugee Center (293)
Thailand / $2,500
Sister Mary Robert Perillat runs a refugee center in Chom Bung, Thailand, close to the Burmese border. There are many Karen people without any legal documents in this area. Subject to ill-treatment and threats, the Karen people cannot travel because they might get caught by the police and sent back to Burma, so their children cannot go to school and their sick and dying cannot go to hospitals. A Flow Fund Gift was shared with the Sister's center, to provide education for children, shelters for families, food and transportation for the sick, and supplementary nourishment for children who are under-nourished. Every month a volunteer doctor visits the local villagers, and sees over 80 people. Part of this Gift is being used to pay for gas and a driver for the doctor.
Water Supply- Sanitation (290)
India / $500
Restoration of traditional water tanks.
Cultural Preservation, Ecology/Sustainability, Health, Water
Center for Medical Healing with traditional Plants and Herbals (286)
India / $750
A start-up grant
Children's nutrition project (284)
India / $750
Children's nutrition project Algae Protein Supplement - C.V.Seshadiri Feeding schoolchildren
Susan Hough & The Mid-Atlantic Center for Healing (266)
http://www.healingintuition.com/
United States - Virginia / $1,500
Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some
Susan Hough is a mentor/counselor for young people in her city of Leesburg, Virgina USA. She holds meetings and guides young people toward their higher purpose. Through the Mid-Atlantic Center for Healing, she holds meetings for young people to discuss racial and other issues in their life. Susan not only gives the young people a place to go to, she also helps transform their lives.
Project Help Them Help Themselves (265)
United States / $2,000
Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some
A gift was shared with this AIDS/HIV Project.
Vivian Ky (261)
United States / $1,000
Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some
A gift was shared with Vivian Ky, who is doing peace work and healing work with victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. She also works with people with AIDS and finding doctors for under privileged people.
Revitalization of Traditional Tibetan Medicine (255)
Nepal / $3,000
Traditional medicine is very important to the people of the remotest Himalayan areas, not only for the health of the people but also for the vitality of the community. It is necessary to revitalize the traditional medical system as a whole, and this project aims to do this through the institutionalization of the traditional medicine educational system.
Seed Banking & Training (242)
Solomon Islands / $709
Flow Funder: Jude & Michel Fanton
Year Funded: 2005
Tikopia is one of the most isolated and smallest areas on earth to live. It is 1.8 square miles with no airport, and it takes ten days to sail there from the nearest island. Only three boats visit the island in a year's time. While the island is a paradise, it is quite crowded with 1,200 Tikopians who have been growing their families for 3,000 years. We met Antony Rotu, an elder Tikopian, who had plans to reconstruct Tikopia, which included educating his fellow Tikopians on the superiority of traditional food and the dangers of the Western diet. We connected Antony with an administrating organization, The Planting Material Network, based in Honiara, which does trainings on the importance of traditional food throughout the Solomon Islands. With their broad expertise in conservation of food plants they advised the Tikopians to preserve local varieties of food crops such as bananas, taro root and other staple crops, and taught them how to inventory their food plants.
Community Food's Food Footprint Calculator (230)
Australia / $2,128
A gift was shared with Community Foods to develop a "Food Footprint Calculator." This project is an extension of the Community Foods website, which provides access to information on local farmers, farmers' markets, community gardens, seed-saver groups, and other consumers. Community Foods developed a public user interface that allows people to measure their environmental impacts based on the input of their food-buying habits. This project brings together current research and data associated with energy costs, environmental service multipliers, and local impact models to deliver a tool of specific relevance to local food systems. The calculator is localized to two regions: Byron Bay NSW and Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia.
Nganga and Village Health Project (229)
Zimbabwe / $2,000
The Nganga Project, a non-profit organization, recognizes that collaboration with traditional healers is essential in confronting AIDS in Africa, and so is working in alliance with the native ways of traditional African people to address AIDS, hunger and other community issues. The project seeks to establish alliances between practitioners of different healing modalities – traditional, Western, Chinese, Native American, etc. Starvation continues to be a major cause of death in Zimbabwe. In addition, Zimbabwe suffers from the highest infection rate of AIDS in the world: 25% of the population is HIV positive. Traditional rites of initiation for young men and women have been largely lost in the past two generations, which the elders see as directly connected to widespread alienation among youth and the exacerbation of the local AIDS crisis. The Nganga Project is collaborating to revive the old rites and make them relevant for those coming of age in contemporary Zimbabwe. The Village Health Project seeks to help alleviate the suffering of those with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe by starting a free Chinese Medicine clinic there.
Community Building Construction (218)
India / $6,677
Flow Funder: Richard Douthwaite
A gift was shared to help construct a multi-purpose community center used for meetings, and a regular out-patient clinic providing primary health care. The structure was planned by the community and youth volunteers helped in its construction. A well was also constructed.
Red de Semillas (Seed Savers) (210)
http://www.seedsavers.net/our-global-reach
Mexico / $1,440
Flow Funder: Tamara Sabitova
Red Semillas (The Seed Network) is a newly formed network of organic seed shareholders in the municipality of Huatusco, in the state of Vera Cruz in Mexico. The current network members live in six different communities: Tepecingo, Tlachopa, Ixotla, Rancho Limon, Coxolo and Las Canadas. The Network was created to produce vegetable seed varieties suited to this particular bio-climatic region, as the available seeds on the market are often unsuitable for the wet, cold tropical climate of the region. Commercial seeds are also expensive to buy, so this network suits the needs of small organic producers. Reproducing appropriate vegetable varieties is an important step for the long-term welfare of the network members, as well as keeping the production organic. The hope is that these seed shareholders will become independent of the global seed market, and their self-sufficiency will increase through seed production and seed exchange. The initial aim of the seed network is to reproduce 50 different vegetable varieties. The varieties of the same species are shared between the producers to avoid cross-pollination, and the seeds are exchanged freely between members. The primary goal is to produce for home-consumption and exchange and the left over seeds will be sold to other producers. The seeds are produced in small home gardens in the six communities mentioned above, by families that grow food for home-consumption. The network is the first of its kind in this region, and will also be the first to produce organic seeds suited to this climate. Its members include men and women, as well as one teenager. A Flow Fund Gift helped purchase essential equipment to produce, select, weigh, store and package seeds.
Alvaro Obregon (205)
Mexico / $4,235
Flow Funder: Tamara Sabitova
Alvaro Obregon is a poor rural community in the mountains near Ixhuatlan in the state of Vera Cruz in Mexico. The population's diet is limited to maize, beans and chili, which they produce themselves. The village has no running water, nor drainage and each family has to collect water several times a day from a spring 1.5 km down the mountain. The problems facing the people in Alvaro Obregon include migration of the young men, malnutrition (especially of the children) and numerous and frequent health problems like diarrhea, parasites, stomach pains, fever, and bronchitis. The ailments are mainly related to their poor diet, inadequate toilet facilities, cold and drafty houses, lack of medical attention, and a smoky indoor environment from cooking over open fires, which affect the women in particular. A Flow Fund Gift was shared to help this community of people.
Volunteer Medical/Dental Clinic in Favellas (204)
Brazil / $4,245
A gift was shared to support the opening of the Buddhist Dharma Gardens Meditation Center's Medical/Dental clinic, located in the middle of several Favellas (slums/ghettos). They needed re-enforced doors and windows as well as upgrade work on their used, donated equipment.
Swimming Therapy (199)
Brazil / $700
Flow Funder: Edmundo Barbosa
A gift was shared for treatment for a poor child to improve his self-esteem, as well as his lungs, which are suffering from a respiratory disease. This treatment has helped with the child's improvement and has made it possible for his mother to go back to work full-time and support the family.
Entertaining Child Cancer Patients (197)
Brazil / $1,925
Flow Funder: Edmundo Barbosa
A gift was shared with a group of high school teenagers who create performances in the main Hospital for Pediatric Cancer in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. These costumed performances take place in the hospital corridors, waiting rooms and wards, bringing joy, hope and entertainment to alleviate the loneliness and pain of out-of-state, poor children patients.
Santa Cruz Health Clinic in La Laguna (195)
Guatemala / $3,000
Enabled the Santa Cruz Health Clinic in La Laguna, Guatemala, to set up a health education and outreach program that led to the formation of the clinic an, to receive over $ 100,000 in donated medical equipment needed to become a fully equipped clinic. The money was spent on shipping costs for extensive donated supplies, including examining and treatment tables, therapy and dental chairs, mobility-enhancing equipment (canes, walkers), beds, oxygen tanks, IV poles, a whole plethora of basic medications and First Aid materials, needles and gloves, and other miscellaneous smaller items.
Cows for Young Families (191)
Kazakhstan / $600
Flow Funder: Vladimir Korotenko
A gift was shared to purchase two cows for two families with very low income and kids under 3-years-old.
Water Pipe Repair (175)
Kazakhstan / $11
Flow Funder: Tamara Sabitova
A gift was shared to help repair the water pipes in a family's home who had been left without running water for the entire summer.
Farmers' Market (168)
Kazakhstan / $450
Flow Funder: Sakan Aubakirova
A gift was shared to establish a small Farmers' Market so that villagers can sell dairy, meat and vegetables.
Medical Check-Ups (167)
Kazakhstan / $550
Flow Funder: Sakan Aubakirova
A gift was shared to purchase medical equipment so that students from the Medical Academy can go to villages and give medical care.
Erlik Newsletter (155)
Kazakhstan / $1,400
Flow Funder: Natalya Levkina
A gift was shared to purchase a computer, scanner, printer, and camera that enabled disabled people to spread the word about their needs. Before this gift, there was very little information for people with spinal injuries. Now this group regularly publishes a newsletter called "Erlik."
Clean Home/Clean Earth (149)
Kazakhstan / $1,300
Flow Funder: Natalya Levkina
A gift was shared to produce seminars, round tables and training programs to involve people in environmental protection activity with the population of an polluted and industrial town.
Disease Prevention Institute (140)
Kazakhstan / $1,915
Flow Funder: Natalya Levkina
A gift was shared to help establish this institute promoting social improvements, alternative medicine (like yoga, massage, aromatherapy, etc.), and deep ecology. Our gift was used to purchase equipment for conducting scientific conferences, trainings, seminars, actions.
Ultrasound Inhaler for Orphan School (139)
Kazakhstan / $450
Flow Funder: Natalya Levkina
A gift was shared to purchase an ultrasound inhaler, which will help a great deal in providing health care and prevention of respiratory diseases of the orphans with weak immune systems attending this school.
Copy Machine for Veterans (130)
Kazakhstan / $361
Flow Funder: Mira Bocharnikova
A gift was shared to purchase a copy machine, so that veterans of World War II can make the copies they need for benefits and health care.
Sheep Breeding to Boost Local Economy (127)
Kazakhstan / $2,000
Flow Funder: Makhmut Konysbayev
12 ewes and 4 lambs were purchased for breeding to help the local economy.
Equipment for Furniture-Making Workshop (125)
Kazakhstan / $870
Flow Funder: Ludmila Kurtavtseva
Funds were shared to purchase equipment for making furniture for a furniture-making workshop for people with tuberculosis.
Separators for Milk Products (124)
Kazakhstan / $340
Flow Funder: Ludmila Kurtavtseva
Funds were shared to purchase separators for milk products so that retired people can receive free milk.
Bathhouse for Locals (122)
Kazakhstan / $1,000
Flow Funder: Ludmila Kurtavtseva
Funds were shared to open a local bathhouse where people with low incomes can now afford to bathe.
Storage Containers for Fresh Vegetables (120)
Kazakhstan / $540
Flow Funder: Ludmila Kurtavtseva
A gift was shared to create a safe and sanitary storage container for fresh vegetables on the first floor of the local rehabilitation center.
Sheep for Disabled Families (116)
Kazakhstan / $960
Flow Funder: Kalima Kulbatchaeva
Funds were shared to purchase sheep for four families whose heads of households had been disabled through work-related injuries and were then dismissed from their jobs. Their pensions are very small and caring for these sheep is something they can do at home which will give them enough income to support their families.
Crisis Center (115)
Kazakhstan / $203
Flow Funder: Kalima Kulbatchaeva
Funding was provided for a crisis center providing support and psychological help.
Elle Ayat (113)
Kazakhstan / $240
Funds were shared with the Elle Ayat movement, which uses the energy of the sun for healing purposes.
Laundry Services for the Blind (111)
Kazakhstan / $2,000
Flow Funder: Gulmira Beketova
Funds were shared to provide laundry services for blind and partially-sighted people.
Supplies for Local Community Bakery (109)
Kazakhstan / $500
Flow Funder: Gulmira Beketova
Funds were shared to purchase an oven, flour and other ingredients for making meat Pirozhkis, which will then be sold. Half of the profit of these sales will go to families with more children than they can feed and the other half will be used to further develop the business. This bakery also solves the problem of a shortage of baked goods in the village, as well as providing additional needed work spaces.
Bakery Run by Single Mothers (108)
Kazakhstan / $1,200
Flow Funder: Gulmira Beketova
Through a Flow Fund Gift, a group of single mothers opened this bakery, which provides baked goods and money for their families. This bakery provides employment for some and extra income for those who are already employed.
Milking Goats for Local Children's Health (107)
Kazakhstan / $650
Flow Funder: Gulmira Beketova
This village is in very close proximity to atomic bomb testing grounds. As a result, the young children have very low immune systems. It has been scientifically proven that drinking goat's milk helps raise the immune system in children, so funds were shared to buy goats to provide milk for local children.
Copier for Local Diabetic Organization (106)
Kazakhstan / $400
Flow Funder: Gulmira Beketova
Funds were shared for the purchase of a copy machine so a local diabetic organization can make multiple copies of the teaching materials they distribute on how to recognize symptoms of diabetes. It is proven that catching the illness in its early stages makes the treatment much more effective.
Air Conditioner for Local Retirement Home (105)
Kazakhstan / $950
Flow Funder: Gulmira Beketova
Funds were shared for the purchase of an air conditioner for the local retirement home. This air conditioner made the life of the older, bedridden residents a little bit easier.
Soccer Match (89)
Kazakhstan / $50
Flow Funder: Sonya Aubakirova
A Flow Fund Gift was shared with a local rehabilitation center for drug addict to organize a soccer match.
Uniforms & Transportation for Local Kids (87)
Kazakhstan / $500
Flow Funder: Sonya Aubakirova
A Flow Fund Gift was shared for the purchase of school uniforms as well as bus service to community gym facilities for local children.
Sports Equipment for People with Disabilities (78)
Kazakhstan / $1,100
Flow Funder: Aigul Dyusenova
This gift funded sports equipment, including sport balls, a volleyball net, and weights for the Union of Peoples with Disabilities.
Acao Harmonia (72)
Brazil / $852
Flow Funder: Sonia Cafe
Acao Harmonia is a nongovernmental organization that works with the "Way of Aikido" in the education of children in areas of great social risks. A gift was shared to help them by uniforms, for their students.
Grupo de Apoio a Pessoa com Cancer (69)
Brazil / $239
Flow Funder: Sonia Cafe
This group works to help poor cancer patients after they have gone through chemotherapy. They provide food supplements and milk, as well offer group activities to restore self-esteem.
Associacao de Creches e Pre-Escolas (ACREDITE) (64)
Brazil / $265
Flow Funder: Sonia Cafe
An Association that assists nurseries and pre-schools, attending to the needs of feeding and day-care for very poor children.
Rede de Combate ao Cancer (63)
Brazil / $800
Flow Funder: Sonia Cafe
This group of volunteer women care for poor cancer patients in hospitals (mainly children and older people).
Association Kota (52)
Burkina Faso / $2,500
Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some
A gift was shared to support this grassroots organization which helps farmers fight hunger with practical advice and/or farming equipment.
The Inside Circle Foundation (51)
United States - California / $1,000
Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some
A gift was shared to support the work of the Inside Circle Foundation, an organization that endeavors to help prisoners regain a healthy relationship with themselves and the outside world.
Books for Prisoners (49)
United States - California / $2,083
Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some
A gift was shared to support sending books to those who are incarcerated.
The Vietnam Experience (43)
United States - California / $250
A gift was shared to support a website created by Vietnam veterans for the recollections, stories, and memorials of veterans and their families.
Spiritual Stories of Personal Transformation (41)
United States - California / $250
A gift was shared to support a web site that is an ecumenical forum where individuals post personal stories of spiritual transformation.
Hesperian's Gratis Fund HIV Book Program (37)
http://www.hesperian.org/projects_gratisBookProgra
South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria / $500
A gift was shared to provide the distribution of 150 handbooks on low-tech care and prevention of HIV in Africa.
Disaster Relief: American Red Cross in Greater New York (34)
United States - New York / $1,000
A gift was shared to help disaster relief for the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack.
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco Minority Outreach (33)
United States - California / $10,000
A gift was shared to foster interchange with disadvantaged minority groups, especially those working in the mental-health field, about Jungian and depth psychology.
Model Mugging Scholarship for 25 Teen Girls (30)
United States - California / $850
A gift was shared to support 25 teen girls in taking a class for female youth, which addresses molestation/rape, how to set boundaries, how to be aware of and avoid danger, and practical, life-saving, defensive fighting.
Conference on Traditional Medicines with Indigenous Peoples (27)
United States - California, Mexico / $575
A gift was shared to support a conference on traditional medicines with indigenous peoples, offering a direct chance to learn from elders/maestros who have kept the healing traditions of Mexico alive.
Water Wells Project (25)
Pakistan / $4,500
Flow Funder: John Malloy
A Flow Fund Gift was shared to support the digging of wells in drought-stricken Tharparkar, in the province of Sindh in Pakistan. Twenty-two hand-pump wells were constructed, with the help of other funders.
Women's Conference on Conscious Eating (24)
United States - California / $400
A gift was shared to support a conference on conscious eating as an act of healing.
Tipis for Ceremonial Camps (21)
http://www.ca500milespiritrun.org/index.html
United States - California / $1,819
Flow Funder: John Malloy
A gift was shared to purchase tipis to be used every year as ceremonial camps for the California 500 Mile American Indian Spiritual Marathon, which crosses California. The tipis are also used for the 24-hour Spiritual Run held each Easter in preparation for the 500-mile run.
American Indian Spiritual Marathon Runners Team (20)
http://www.ca500milespiritrun.org/
United States - California / $500
Flow Funder: John Malloy
A gift was shared to create T-shirts to honor Sun Dance spiritual leaders and commemorate the California 500-Mile American Indian Spiritual Marathon, which begins in Keen and ends in Ripon, CA
Shoshone Elder Delivering Food (12)
Mexico, United States - Idaho, United States - Wyoming / $1,000
Flow Funder: Leslie Gray
A Flow Fund gift was shared to support an 80-year-old Shoshone elder to deliver food to native Kumeyaay children in northern Mexico.
Conference on Indian Health & Healing (9)
http://www.nativeland.org/ilrp.html
United States - California / $2,500
A gift was shared with the Cultural Conservancy to organize a "think tank" of Native scholars on the future of indigenous health and healing.
Latina Battered Women's Program (2)
United States - California / $5,000
Flow Funder: Margo Segura and Marine Dominguez
A Flow Fund Gift was shared to assist in developing a Latina Battered Women's Community Outreach Program at the San Diego, California YMCA, which includes the production of bilingual materials.